In June’s Sunday Editions, we took a tour of the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, from previous years. In July, we’re narrowing down to recent camping trips, still in The Koots! This spot is along Hawkins Creek. Jim and I took our new-to-us travel trailer out for a weekend shakedown cruise to see how […]

Kootenay Lake is the heart of the Canadian Kootenay region, which I’ve been showcasing on Sundays in June. If you’ve known me for a while, you may recall that we’ve had some bad forest-fire summers. This photo was taken during fire season in 2018. Fires do a lot of damage and negatively impact the air […]

Welcome to the Kootenays, affectionately known as The Koots. As in, “Where do you live?” “In The Koots.” Kootenay is the anglicized name for the local First Nations people who live in British Columbia and Montana/Idaho. Fun fact: the American spelling of the Kootenay River, which winds through both countries, has an i on the […]

Welcome back to southeastern British Columbia, Canada! This week’s photos are taken along Lake Koocanusa. This is a man-made lake, the result of a hydroelectric dam. The word comes from combining three place names KOO (comes from Kootenay, the region of BC), CAN (the first three letters of Canada), and USA (for United States of […]

Thanks to covid-19, my vacations will be close to home this summer. Thankfully, my husband and I live in a very beautiful part of the world and enjoy camping and hiking in the backcountry. We just picked up a new-to-us travel trailer that’s a little bigger than our previous one, so we are looking forward […]

Well, we’re wrapping up May today! And with it, we’re ending my time on Sunday Editions for a while. Valerie will be here with y’all in June and July. It’s also the “end of the school year” time around here, though everything is strange this year. Still, our Awana club is having their award ceremony […]

This weekend here in the US is Memorial Day weekend. It’s a great time (no matter where you live) to spend a moment thinking of the people who have given their lives in service of your country. I got taken to task about the appropriate way to celebrate/talk about Memorial Day a couple of years […]

You know the saying, right? When life gives you lemons… Feels like there have been a lot of lemons handed out lately. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of lemonade. The reality is, I love lemon-flavored things, but not actually lemonade. So I thought we could talk about lemony goodness that isn’t […]

Happy Mother’s Day! (I realize we already missed Mother’s Day if you’re in the UK – sorry about that.) Mother’s Day has always been tricky for me. My mom’s birthday is tomorrow — so some years her birthday is on Mother’s Day and the rest of the time it’s close — and it seemed like […]

It’s May! Anyone else spend the first day or two of May singing the song from the musical Camelot? No? Just me then. My mom was a big fan of musicals. She had a number of the soundtracks as records – like vinyl, be careful that you don’t scratch them when you put the needle […]